Our Portfolio
Investments in solutions-focused social science
Stanford Impact Labs makes staged and sequenced investments in collaborative teams of scholars and practitioners working to harness social science for public impact.
Stage 1: Seed Partnerships
SIL's Stage 1: Seed Partnerships funding provides support for new and established partnerships to conduct research that deepens understanding of their chosen problem and sets the stage for testing solutions.
Approaches to Healthier Youth Smartphone Use
Building a Coalition for Improved Resource Adequacy Policy in a High-Renewables West
Fortifying Families Through Digital Access to Justice
Healthcare AI
Optimizing the Delivery of Family-Centered Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
Scaling Food as Medicine Across Populations and Geography
El Encuentro
Elevating Women’s Voices in Policymaking in India
Empowering Peer Supporters
Guestworker Migration Initiative
Inequities at the Tap
Stage 2: Test Solutions
Stage 2: Test Solutions provides flexible funding for teams to develop and test solutions in collaboration with external partners. Maybe this means launching a pilot program. Maybe it means a research team deploying an innovative data-driven approach to a core challenge area from within a partner organization. Teams often use the funds to hire professional staff, fund data collection, or support partner costs.
Baby Bonds Evaluation
Community-based Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC)
Improving Medication Adherence to Reduce Involuntary Hospitalizations
Lifting the Bar
Piloting to Policy
Bridging Reading Science and Educational Practice
Decentralization with Guardrails
Evaluating and Scaling Race-blind Charging
Slowing the Spread
The Impact of Cash Transfers for a Housing Insecure Population
Transforming Access to Justice
Changing Cities Research Lab
Educational Opportunity Impact Lab
Empowering Diverse Digital Citizens Lab
Tax Havens and Global Capital Allocation in Europe
Health Care Fairness Impact Lab
Stanford History Education Group
Equitable Access to Education
Strengthening Democracy Challenge
GeoMatch: AI for Immigrant Integration
BRICK Lab
Improving Health Outcomes with Food as Medicine Approaches
Lifting the Bar: Education After Juvenile Detention
Guarding Our Water Supply
Reproductive Equity and Autonomy Lab (REAL)
Center on Poverty and Inequality
Reducing Pretrial Incarceration with Open-Source Technology
Our Communities Our Bay
Next-Generation Energy Policies in California
SPARQ
Stage 3: Amplify Impact
Stage 3 funding from Stanford Impact Labs is designed to supercharge teams that have a demonstrated track record of successful partnership-based R&D cycles and are ready to take their work to the next level.
